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R. SOLANO.

STEAM MUPFLER'.

No. 352,273. Patented Nov. 9,1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EETCE.

RENALDO SOLANO, OE BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OE TWO-THIRDS TO JOHN W. HOWARD .AND DAVID E. MORSE, BOTH OE SAME PLAGE.

STEAM-MUFFLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,273, dated November 9, 1886.

Application filed August 14, 1886. Serial No. 210,861.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatvI, RENALDO SOLANO, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Mufiiers for Deadening the Sound of Escaping Steam, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part To thereof, in whichi' Figure l is a vertical section; Fig. 2, a top plan view; and Fig. 3, a horizontal cross-section taken on the line z e, Fig. 1.

The object of this invention is tosuppress I5 the noise of'escapingsteain blowingfroin pipes,

nozzles, valves, or other openings.

In the present instance the invention is adapted for use in connection with an ejector for vacuum-brakes; and in order that others 2O may understand and use my invention, I will first proceed to deseribea device embodying the same, and subsequently point out in the claim its novel features.

In the drawings, A represents a casting that is intended to be screwed onto the pipe of an ejector for vacuum-brakes. In said casting an annular ring, B, is provided, in which two drip-valves, b b', are placed, and secured by two hollow nuts, c c, which support the springs 3o d d, and are connected with-the pipes e e. These dripvalves are held open by the springs d df when the muflier is vacant, and closed by the pressure.accumulated during the escape of steam.

C is a cylindrical casting divided in two.

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the central openings of the latter and leave a space at both ends adjacent to the casting. The casting D is bolted to a supporting-plate,

E, by a screw and nut, It, and the plate is se- 5o cured to the casting G by bolts m. Between the casting C and plate E a wire-cloth, F, is placed. l

G is a sheathing, to make the body of the muffler of uniform diameter.

Having referred to the respective parts of which the device is made up, I will now ex plain the operation.

The steam escaping from the ejector or other instrument passes-up through the pipe a, and 6c follows the circuitous or zigzag course through and between the projecting anges l1. and t', as indicated by the arrows, until it meets the wire covering F, through which it escapes to the atmosphere in a finely-divided state, and the condensed water that accumulates in the device is automatically carried off through the drip-valves b b. The escaping steampin its passage through and around the projecting flanges h z' is constantly diverted from its di- 7o rect course, which checks vits velocity and roaring sound.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 75 A muffler attachment for the escape-nozzles of vacuum-brake ejectors or other steamescapes, consisting of an annular chamber formed of a separable casting, A, having a series of inwardly-projecting annular lianges, SO and a central core or casting, D, having a se'- ries of outwardly-projecting flanges arranged alternately, as described, for diverting the course of the passing steam, said chamber communicating openly with the steam-escape and with the atmosphere through'a perforated or gauze covering, and fitted with suitable dri p-valves, as set forth.

REN ALDO SOLANO.

Witnesses:

AUG. CREVELING, G. W. FORBEs. 

